During her 10-month sabbatical from Washington and Lee University and after the rediscovery of her grandfather Tom Miranda’s tapes, Miranda began writing her tribal memoir in 2007-2008 while she was back in her home state of California.[4] During this time, Miranda began to research the California Missions and her own family histories, recognizing that these stories were not separate but rather intertwined.[5] As Miranda notes in an interview with Donna Miscolta, “California Indian history is brutal. I learned the realities of it from my father. The academic knowledge came later. And they were the same thing.”[5] In an interview Miranda expresses her inspiration with bringing together the pieces of her story: “Eventually, I remembered Gloria Anzaldua talking about how a mosaic is what you make out of broken pieces, and suddenly, it made sense: I couldn’t ‘reconstruct’ our culture, but I could gather what pieces I could find and try to create something new out of it.”[4]
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